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VP product @googlechrome. former founder of relay.app and Timeful
Joined August 2011
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If you have too many tabs in @googlechrome, I have something that may help!

It’s a feature called Vertical Tabs, which moves tabs from a horizontal strip on the top of the browser to a vertical panel on the left. This ensures that you can always read the title of the tab, even if you have lots of them open.

When I posted about it a few weeks ago, hundreds of people messaged me asking how to set it up, so I recorded a quick 2-minute video to show you.

Check it out and I look forward to your feedback!
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Had a great time talking about the future of Chrome with @conorgrennan on the AI Applied podcast. A few of the topics we covered:

- Why AI isn't going to do everything for us

- How different users with different needs will use AI

- Why the browser presents cool opportunities for collaborating with AI

Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=U27l2u…
www.youtube.com Jacob Bank Discusses the Future of Google Chrome In this episode, we explore Jacob Bank's insights on the evolution ...
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One of the most common and dangerous threats we all face on the web is simpler than you might think:

🎣Phishing scams. 🎣

In these attacks, a scammer will typically create a convincing replica of a real website and bait you into entering important information (like your username and password) into the site.

I know how easy these are to fall for, because I’ve worked on anti-phishing for over a decade and I fell for one myself! A friend of mine had her email hacked and sent out a very convincing but fake invitation to a birthday party.

At @googlechrome we’re working hard to take the guesswork out of spotting phishing attacks, malware and other scams with Safe Browsing warnings that look like this:
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We’re rolling out our brand new model, Gemini 4 Argon, to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in Gemini in Chrome on desktop. Chrome is a primary workspace for deep, multi-tab research, and 4 Argon is uniquely built to handle those highly complex, real-world tasks. For example, in a complicated travel planning scenario, the team tested 4 Argon and saw:

🚗 Better multi-step planning: It does an even better job respecting every constraint from your prompt, like budgets, vehicle limits, or daily drive times, and optimizing end-to-end plans around all of them at once.

🎯 Stronger attention to detail: It scans through every detail from each tab to surface the fine print that’s easy to miss, accurately navigating complex dates, seasonal closures, and buried restrictions with links to the exact source.

📊 Richer presentation: Instead of plain text or tables, it creates clean, scannable layouts, interactive charts, and visual place cards to help you make an informed decision.

Excited for you to try it! Learn more here: goo.gle/4yabXGo
blog.google Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems We’re giving developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers access to Gemini 4 Argon, our latest frontier model.